It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Uwe Boll's original video game adaptation of ALONE IN THE DARK was bad enough, but this sequel reaches new levels of low. Gone are Christian Slater and Tara Reid from the original film, jettisoned in favour of an entirely cheaper cast and an even more nonsensical storyline involving the hunt for a magical dagger and an evil witch.Bizarrely, the central character of Edward Carnby has changed race, now being played by the Chinese-American actor Rick Yune. Carnby's very soul is in peril thanks to a sinister infection that causes some dodgy-looking veins to stick out of his chest, so a crack team must infiltrate a haunted manor and lay to rest the spirit of an evil witch who's causing all kinds of trouble.This is a poorly-directed, poorly-written mess through and through, reliant on sub-par CGI and bad acting from beginning to end. All it can offer the viewer is a string of celebrity cameos from various personalities, so we get the likes of Bill Moseley, Jason Connery, former CONAN Ralf Moeller, and CARRIE's P.J. Soles. Even Danny Trejo shows up for just a single scene. Best of the lot is Lance Henriksen, who bags something of a meatier exposition-spouting role, but even he's on autopilot, and nothing about ALONE IN THE DARK 2 is good.

Paranormal investigator Edward Carnby is approached by a drug dealer who claims to have information on a rare occult dagger that can grant its owner powers & who wants to see the remains of three people in the hospital morgue. Carnby assists him in visiting the stiffs but is stabbed with the dagger in the process. As soon as he is stabbed, a group of mercenaries led by the family of an old witch hunter arrive & rescue Carnby before his wound gets too severe. Once at their fortified compound, Carnby begins to see visions of a witch who haunts the family, trying to claim the body of the family's daughter Natalie. At night the family & most of the mercs are attacked by the witch & almost wiped out, but only Carnby & Natalie survive. Seeking help from a former occultist who has renounced his past & now works as a vet, the pair try to find the witch's body & destroy it before Natalie's body becomes the host for her.Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark was the second film in Boll's now infamous "Unholy Trilogy" of video game adaptations (the others were HOUSE OF THE DEAD & BLOODRAYNE) that were widely pilloried for their lack of finesse & poor filmmaking. Having said that, the films made a surprising amount of money & all the negative press has worked wonders for Boll's career, to the point where he is now a sort of cult icon in his own right (sort of a 21st Century version of Ed Wood). All three films have had sequels done & this is also the case with Alone in the Dark.Alone in the Dark II is, if you want a capsule definition, an occult thriller with shootouts thrown in for novelty value. The plot was the same kind of stuff that wouldn't look out of place in an old 1970s Hammer film but conducted here with a smidgen of science fiction in order to give it some leverage. Of course, the problem here is that the plot is too ordinary & too passé to work for these days. Not just that but the original Alone in the Dark became famous for its lack of writing skill, which made gave it an almost instant cult profile, something the sequel has bettered but given its mediocre script makes it sort of pointless.The film's one redeeming aspect is that the cast recruited all give professional performances. In fact, the film is very low-key, giving the actors plenty of room to stretch their theatrical legs. Lance Henriksen, an actor who is legendary in the profession due to his consistent batting average in many classic & cult genre films, gives the film a quiet dignity as the former occultist who assists in chasing the undead witch.

This movie looks nothing like the first one, because this film is just like Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Yeah they made a totally different movie, and slapped the word Alone in the Dark 2 on it. This movie has even more bigger problems, it has too many plot holes, really bad CGI for the witch, worst direction, worst casting choices, horrible editing, it's really poorly shot, because this film is PG-13, and this movie fails for being PG-13. The first one was a lot better, and it makes more sense, and this one was doesn't, because the script for this movie is really horrendous, and also I didn't think Alone in the Dark didn't need a sequel, because the main characters died, so how in the world did Edward Carnby survive? Oh God this film is really horrible, no one should watch it at all, because it makes no sense, so I suggest you watch the first one, because that one is a lot better, this one is worse. They should have let Uwe Boll direct the sequel, so there goes to show that they should not let the writers of the first Alone in the Dark direct the sequel, because they did it more horrible.

Because, you know...Alone in the Dark 1 was such a great film and all. Was it really necessary to make an even worse sequel to an already horrible film? This one is shockingly good at being completely worthless. The special effects were a complete mess. The acting was very hit or miss (some did a fairly decent job however it's not worth sticking up for them as they agreed to work on this filth). The story is all over the place. I've never seen a movie that felt like those involved realized nothing good was going to come of it so they just gave up and threw together what had been done and submitted it as a finished product. Now I have.